Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-24

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the suns disc disappears below the hof-
lion, and Just when one sees only very
small segment of its surface. Tourists
in Egypt and tho Red Sea testify TO the
phenomenon. Some consider it objec-
tive, and others believe it TO be subjec-
tive.
The recent embargo on coal has slim
ulated the use Of crude oil or petroleum
as a substitute for coal, with some manu-
facturers. The liquid is conducted from
the tanks to the furnaces in pipes, to
burn under the boilers in the shape of
spray. 10 can be turned off at mo
ments notice. There is said to be a say
ing in it of 20 per cent.
TuE mayor of Cherbourg, France, has
ISSUED a circular stating that a monument
in memory of Jean Francois Millet, the
French peasant and painter will be erect
ed ia ono of the public squares of that
town, which has started the movement
with an appropriation of $4,000 and APP
penis for further aid "to all those who
would perpetuate the fame Of one of the
greatest masters of the French school"
A SpmNGFIELD, Mass, man has discov-
cred what has long been pretty well
known--that the real mission Of the mos
quito ia to purify. He has two hogs
heads filed with water, and in one he put
a lot of wrigglers or embryo mosquitoes.
Tho water free from the wrigglers soon
became foul! but that containing them
remained sweet SO he concluded that
mosquitoes keep our swamps from be
coming foul and pestilent.
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THE interstate commerce law, which
will 90 into operation about April !, has
impened the Pennsylvania and Boston
and Lowell Railroads to issue notices to
shippers that present tariffs and special
rates will be withdrawn; in the case of
the PENNSYLVANIA on April and in that
of the Boston and Lowell on April l. The
roads are in doubt as TO how the law will
bear upon them, and are taking action to
protect themselves. This doubt ON the
part of the roads as to Just how the law
is going to work calls attention to the fact
that there are many crudihes and con
tradictions in tho measure, and empha-
sizes the necessity for the appointment of
clear-headed and conservative men on
the commission which is to enforce it.
IT is said that Albany is the only CAPT
tai of the original thirteen states that
was not captured during the Revolutions
ary war. 1t stood like Gibraltar of the
colonial cause, when Boston, New York
and Philadelphia had fallen. Enemies
endeavored to capture it from the north,
but melted away by the time they reached
Saratoga Time and time again did the
English troops attempt to force their way
up the Hudson with i'll success. During
the war of 1912 the attempt was again
made to capture Albany from the north
hut though the capital of the nation was
pinaped. Albany remained in security.
Even in the dark days of the seventeenth
century the Frcrch and Indians did not
come closer than Schenectady.
an 1854" is the official appellation of
the new weapon adopted by the German
army, which, translated, or rather written
out in full, would signify: "Mauser, gan
invented in 1871, changed into magazine
gun 1854" Tee first improvement 20 be
noted ia the fact that empty cartridges
after firing are expelled 10y spring in
stead of being jerked out by movement
of the hand. Another Improvement IS
the easy use of the trigger and almost en-
tire absence of recoil. The magazine
consisting of barrel running parallel
with the bore, contains eight cartridges,
which are pushed backward by means of
a spiral spring As they enter the lower
chamber OF the lock Il so-called spoon
lifts them into the firing chamber, whence
the shells are subsequently expelled by
special continuance.
In 1887 Matthew Crooker, of Buffalo
n. Y. bought five thousand acres of land
in the mountains of Tennessee for mere
song, from a party holding the property